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>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Gro_johann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:

  Kai> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

  >> I've tried running cvs from the command line, and examining the
  >> output. As far as I can tell, it's all fine. The caveat here is
  >> that the errors are different every time, so I don't know which
  >> bit of the output to examine by hand, and there is a lot of it.

  Kai> Why is there a lot of output?  It should just print a list of
  Kai> dir names, if everything is up to date.  Do you have hundreds
  Kai> of directories there?  If so, why not try `cvs update -dP' in a
  Kai> subdir of your complete working directory?


Sorry, I meant from a cvs status. I tried cvs update -dP, and it all
appears to work fine. 

If, as Stefan suggested, its a problem with piping, then it would work
fine on tty? 

Cheers

Phil